{"product_id":"tomorrow-is-the-question-benjamin-piekut-9780472119264","title":"Tomorrow Is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies","description":"In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found in all kinds of new places: activist films, rock recordings, and public radio broadcasts, not to mention in avant-garde movements around the world.\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Is the Question\u003c\/i\u003e explore these previously unexamined corners of experimental music history, considering topics such as Sonic Youth, Julius Eastman, the Downtown New York pop avant-garde of the 1970s, Fluxus composer Benjamin Patterson, Tokyo's Music group (aka Group Ongaku), the Balinese avant-garde, the Leicester school of British experimentalists, Cuba's Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC, Pauline Oliveros's score for the feminist documentary \u003ci\u003eMaquilapolis\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's 1980s \u003ci\u003eRadioVisions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the philosophy of experimental musical aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, this menagerie of people, places, and things makes up an actually existing experimentalism that is always partial, compromised, and invented in its local and particular formations--in other words, these individual cases suggest that experimentalism has been a far more variegated set of practices and discourses than previously recognized. Asking new questions leads to researching new materials, new individuals, and new contexts and, eventually, to the new critical paradigms that are necessary to interpret these materials. Gathering contributions from historical musicology, enthnomusicology, history, philosophy, and cultural studies, \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Is the Question\u003c\/i\u003e generates future research directions in experimental music studies by way of a productive inquiry that sustains and elaborates critical conversations.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Piekut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472119265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472119264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 812","brand":"Benjamin Piekut","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086708355327,"sku":"9780472119264","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39d1bafd-6b6e-493e-9188-0426dcf4d9e4.jpg?v=1769096115","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tomorrow-is-the-question-benjamin-piekut-9780472119264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}